Nate Harris Quotations

When I was in high school and would ride along with my dad, I thought of how cool it would be if we were cops together. I always thought if the opportunity presented itself, I was going to try to get on with Fairview Heights.

When we came up on the board, we almost tore coach Morrill's house apart. It was awesome.

We have proven that we can play with schools like Arizona and Kansas. We are just short of a win. It would be nice to get over the hump and get into the win column.

Nobody could stop them. Guys drove around us at every spot. David Fisher pretty much just lit us up.

I would rather have anybody else shooting that last shot than him. But Dave (Pak) played him real well on that last play. A contested shot is what you want and thank goodness it didn't go in.

He was shooting the ball great. With that being said, we lived by the three way too long. It was good that we were shooting good, but we've got to find a way to balance out.

Guys hit free throws down the stretch, so that really helped us out.

I think it's a combination of a lot of things. We have a good arena, we always get a good crowd, and the travel is difficult for teams coming in here.

I thought we responded great. We expected things like this to occur and the guys have responded and played well.

Our offense is based on guys getting good looks. I think we just take a lot of good shots.

I wasn't quite ready to go. I just took a few extra seconds to take it all in and say good bye one last time.

We came out real lackadaisical, and they came out ready to go. It was just a matter of us getting to their shooters and getting ourselves going.

We are just glad we are in the championship game. Whoever it may be, we just need to be ready to go.

We always thought we could do it, that's what has made it a little more sweeter this year. People have counted us out sometimes, we've been proving them wrong all season. It's good to be here.

We always thought we could do it, a lot of people probably didn't think we could. That has made it a little more sweeter this year. ... It's good to be here.

We gave them all they could handle on their home floor. We had our opportunities to win.

We want to focus on one game at time but at the same time we know we have to win out in order to get the highest seeding we can ? a chance to get second or a chance to get third. We don't want to fall down into the fourth or fifth spot; that would be bad for us.

Every year, there seems to be a 12 seed beating a 5. If it could be us that would be great.

Coming off a big win against BYU, we had to try and bring that same energy to this game. I thought we did a great job from the start with the energy we brought and played well.

They got some easy baskets. Giving up that many points in the paint is very uncharacteristic of our team.

It's easy to allow yourself to get in that kind of a bad mindset, and we kind of did. Our play showed. We had streaks of good basketball and streaks of really bad basketball. That's something we have to fix.

It's easy to relax when you jump out to a 13-1 lead. After that, they pretty much beat us the rest of the first half. We kind of relaxed a little bit after getting a big lead. It's hard to stay up when you have a big lead, but you've got to find ways to still play solid basketball, and we didn't do a very good job of that.

It's been good for me. It kind of settles you down. You get more regular sleep and eat better. Since she's involved in athletics, she understands the travel and what goes into it.

I've enjoyed the experience today. We battled all night long. I'm sure in a couple days or weeks I'll look back and be able to look at my whole career and realize the things we did.

It was good to get a little rest, good to get those other guys in for some minutes.

I learned a lot in that game. I kind of figured out what I have to do to be successful.

If guys can't be ready for this one, then something is wrong. This is obviously a huge game. We know what Hawaii is capable of. They took care of us pretty good at their place. We'll be ready, and guys will respond well.

This is a good way to finish it off. This is a little more sweet for me personally this time. ... We have come a long ways since I've been here. It's been nice to be a part of that.

A lot of times. That shot is going to go in 99 out of a 100 times or about 65 percent of the time. It was a just a little chip shot that goes down a lot of the time. Now it doesn't even matter. I can forget about it. It makes the getting over process a lot easier.